Bill Text: HI SCR57 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: DAGS; SFCA; Transfer; Working Group

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-22 - (S) Certified copies of resolutions sent, 06-19-12. [SCR57 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR57-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.C.R. NO.	57
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish a working group to develop recommendations regarding the administrative placement of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

 

 

     WHEREAS, the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts was established by Act 269, Session Laws of Hawaii 1965, as a temporary agency and placed within the Office of the Governor; and

 

     WHEREAS, Act 192, Session Laws of Hawaii 1970, established the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts on a permanent basis, placed within the Department of Budget and Finance; and

 

     WHEREAS, Act 302, Session Laws of Hawaii 1980, transferred the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts from the Department of Budget and Finance to the Department of Accounting and General Services; and

 

     WHEREAS, since the inception of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts in 1965, the Legislature has charged the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts with the task of stimulating, guiding, and promoting culture, arts, history, and the humanities throughout the State; and

 

     WHEREAS, across the country, art foundations have evolved to remain relevant, vibrant, and able to play a significant, if not the central role, in promoting culture and the arts in their respective communities; and

 

     WHEREAS, one means of achieving greater relevancy and assistance for Hawaii's arts and cultural communities would be a transfer of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts from the Department of Accounting and General Services to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and

 

     WHEREAS, such a transfer would provide an opportunity to evaluate successes and best practices from other jurisdictions in refocusing the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism's Creative Industries Division to achieve a higher level of business development opportunities for cultural, heritage, and arts programs, as well as leveraging public-private partnerships for financing Hawaii's cultural, heritage, and arts programs; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2012, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism is requested to establish a working group to develop recommendations regarding the administrative placement of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the recommendations build upon the current mission of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and incorporate Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism expertise and support for:

 

     (1)  Leveraging public-private financing in support of visual arts, music, design, literature, theater, dance, libraries, museums, and galleries to strengthen Hawaii's cultural sector with expanded funding and raise the grants funding capacity of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to cultural business development levels of $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 annually;

 

     (2)  Developing a strategic plan to expand Hawaii's community arts organizations in order to provide Hawaii residents and visitors with quality cultural experiences; and

 

     (3)  Developing a sustainable funding model to support increased investment in cultural, heritage, and arts programming throughout the State; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism report its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2013; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the working group be dissolved on June 30, 2013; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, and the Executive Director of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

DBEDT; SFCA; Transfer; Working Group